Wednesday

After my pizza post, I'm not sure there's much to add.  It was wonderful, but should have been bigger, so I also ate cashews and cheese and some chocolate almonds last night.  No change in weight from yesterday.

Liz is taking an anti-migraine medication that specifically cautions against low-carb eating.  Bother.  I gave her some suggestions about adding fruits and starchy veg and rice to her diet to make sure to avoid going into ketosis, and suggested getting some keto-stix to test if she's at all concerned.  Apparently this medication with low-carb can cause metabolic acidosis, very similar to diabetic ketoacidosis, and potentially fatal.  But another side-effect of the medication is weight loss, so it sounds like adding carbs won't hurt her in that way.  I wonder, though.  Does it work through some sort of insulin suppression mechanism?  Probably not, but it's interesting that those two side-effects are coinciding there.

Several other paleo bloggers reported on the French vegans who inadvertently killed their baby by not having vital nutrients in the mother's breast milk.  All I can say is how very sad that story is.  Because I'm sure they thought they were doing the right thing for themselves and their child.  I think we're doing the right thing by eating this way, but unless my daughter is careful to avoid ketosis, her migraine meds could kill her.  Given that, I hope they don't face any criminal charges - they'll be living with this for the rest of their lives, and that's more than enough consequence, as far as I'm concerned.